Hello my friends! Yes, another great Etsy giveaway! Can you believe it? Well, please let me introduce to you my new friend Challene from Blue Moose Creations all the way from Wasilla, Alaska! It isn't cold up there is it? I know its still cold here in Oregon, generally speaking. It just snowed today!

Challene is just getting started on Etsy and I offered to help her with some awareness, because she honestly is an amazing beader... her work is truly gorgeous! You have to check out her beautiful Etsy shop!

Challene is a mother to a little boy and is happily married to the best guy she says! She loves to care for and play with her son and spend quality time with her family. She also loves to make and create jewelry and tend to her ETsy shop!

In the summer she and her family love to go fishing and be in the seriously great outdoors of the mighty Alaskan nature! And, in the winter..cold and long there..she loves to read, and have a cup of chai tea by the fire place. Well, me too Challene. Cheers...to tea time! I will say it is a blessing to have the ability to keep warm...woowee!

You can also learn more about Challene and stay in touch with her by visiting her blog:http://bluemoosecreations.blogspot.com/

So today, Challene would like to kindly invite you to visit her Etsy shop! She is graciously offering this beautiful Key To My Heart Sterling Silver Charm Necklace to one lucky winner of this giveaway! A beautiful quality rainbow moonstone, delicately wrapped in sterling silver wire, and suspended on a sterling silver chain with a sterling silver heart key charm. It hangs 18 inches long.

Here is what you have to do to enter this contest:

You do not have to be a blogger to enter.

It is open to World Wide Entries!

PLEASE NOTE: Each entry must be posted separately to count.

1. For one entry please go visit her Etsy store, Blue Moose Creationsand check it out. Come back here to my blog and post a comment on your favorite design from the shop. Also, please be sure to leave your email address so I can notify you if you are a winner.

2. For a 2nd entry subscribe to my blog by email in the upper left side of my blog. ( I only blog about once a week or so..well I use to!) Oryou can be my Facebook Fan- HelenesDreams.Etsy.Com ...click here please.

3. For a 3rd entry if you would like..follow my blog, or link back to my blog, or blog about this great giveaway! ( You can post this entry if you already follow my blog or link to it. Please post the url link if you blog or twitter about this giveaway.)

4. For a 4th entry ....post this blog giveaway link on your Facebook and invite your friends to a great giveaway!

This giveaway will end on Sunday, May 16th at midnight. A winner will be picked using Random.org. Up to four entries are accepted per person. I will post the winner on Monday, May 17th in the evening. The prize will be sent out to a winner who has claimed their winning within 3 days of being notified.

I would like to thank all of you for taking a moment to participate. I greatly appreciate it.

Today, the Random.org generator picked lucky entry #315 which is entry name Tiffany! Yeah! Congratulations Tiffany ! I will be contacting Tiffany by email and congratulating her!

Thank you so very much to all of you who have made such kind and wonderful comments and for participating in the giveaway. Thank you as well to Blue Moose Creations for sharing her gorgeous jewelry shop!

Please check back, I will be offering another giveaway in a few weeks or so.

Have a great summer and please stop in and say hello! xo Helene

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Yay! My sweet hubby, Chuck, booked a vacation for our family as a surprise this year to Cancun, Mexico. His company kindly passed on a ton of airline miles to help us afford this wonderful trip this year. They told us we needed to use them by the end of May this year, and well... surprise..here we go!

So, I can't complain about this. I feel like I really could use a vacation..or something new for a change. It has been snowing all week long here up in the mountains. We have had grey skies for weeks and it is seriously chilly all of the time. Yes, I am ready for some sun and happiness!

I am planning to list a bunch of new cabs when I return for the 101BestBeads shop and also I have some Mother's Day jewelry lined up as well. So please check back for all the new and exciting fun items coming up!

I will be gone from April 7th to April 18th!

P.S. I will be back soon. Thanks to all my friends! Have a great week!

Also, I am having a giveaway that will end when I get back! Please check out the post below this one to enter! Thanks again!